Overview of following and notifications

Follow pages to be notified of changes

When you follow a page, it means you'll be notified when changes
get made to the page. You're made aware of changes via in-app
notifications on the Application Toolbar, desktop notifications and
email notifications.

You receive in-app notifications when edits and comments are made,
or when a page is added to a page you follow. In-app notifications
show up on the Application Toolbar, to the right of the Favorites
menu. When you have new notifications, a number appears on the
Notifications menu, indicating how many new notifications you have.
Desktop notifications appear on your screen when changes are made
to pages while you are logged in to the intranet.

You can keep up-to-date with a news, blog or forum page by
following it, as you will receive a notification of every new post.
You can also follow files and folders to learn about changes made
to them. This allows you to keep up with changes to information you
need to know about.

Follow a page

Step 1: Go to the page you want to
follow.

Step 2: Click "Follow" in the Sharing Bar
below the page title.

You can follow a file by performing the above steps on the
individual file page, OR you can go to the page a
file or folder is attached to, click the down triangle on the far
right of the file or folder, and click on "Follow" in the dropdown
menu that opens.

Unfollow a page

Follow these instructions to unfollow one page at a time.

Step 1: Go to the page you want to
unfollow.

Step 2: Click "Unfollow" in the share bar
below the page title.

To unfollow more than one page at a time, see the heading
View and edit the list of pages that you follow
below.

You can also unfollow a page after receiving an email notification
about changes to the page. Every notification email has an
"Unfollow" link beside the page breadcrumb. Click it to unfollow
the page, and confirm that you want to unfollow the page.

You can unfollow a file by performing the above steps on the
individual file page, OR you can go to the page a
file or folder is attached to, click the down triangle on the far
right of the file or folder, and click on "Unfollow" in the
dropdown menu that opens.

View and edit the list of pages that you follow

Step 1: Click the Notifications menu (to the
right of the Favorites menu) in the Application Toolbar at the top
of any page.

Step 2: Click "Following list" in the menu
that opens.

Step 3: To refine the list of pages you
follow:

Type search terms in the search box and press Enter,
OR

Choose to sort the results by "Date" followed or page "Title",
OR

Click on filters on the left to filter the results by page
type, or by when you followed the page.

Step 4: Select the checkbox(es) of the page(s)
you don't want to follow, or select the checkbox "All on this page"
if you want to unfollow all of the pages you are currently viewing
on that page.

Step 5: Click "Unfollow" above the list of
pages.

View in-app notifications

To view your new notifications, click on the Notifications menu in
the Application Toolbar to open a dropdown list of notifications.
The notifications list will tell you which page changed, what kind
of change was made, when, and by whom. You can click on the page
title to visit that page.
You can view past notifications that are no longer showing in the
Notifications menu. Click on the Notifications menu in the
Application Toolbar, and click "Notifications history" at the
bottom of the menu that opens. You can then navigate from day to
day to see past notifications.

You can also choose to receive email notifications when changes are
made to pages you follow, or when someone adds you as a follower to
a page.

Hot intranet tip!

Follow a blog, news or forum section for notifications about
new posts

Go to a news section, e.g. "Sales Team Blog," and click
"Follow". Once you do, you'll receive an in-app notification every
time someone adds a new post. You can keep up with the latest news
and be the first to know about what's happening. If your profile
settings specify that you want to receive email notifications when
someone adds a page to pages you follow, you'll also get email
notifications of new posts.

Go directly to editing your notification settings from any
page

You can go directly to editing the notifications tab of your
profile settings by clicking on the Notifications menu in the
Application Toolbar, and then clicking the gear icon in the bottom
right of the menu that opens.

Choose whether or not to receive daily and weekly emails

If your intranet administrator enables it, you can receive a Daily
Email Catch-up that summarizes activity on pages you have followed,
and a Weekly Email Newsletter that summarizes activity on pages you
follow and popular pages. To choose whether or not to receive these
emails, edit your profile, and look in the Notifications tab for
the Email digest settings.